Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis General Library, Dept. of Special Collections

Title: Alan Bacher Williamson Papers

Creator:
Williamson, Alan (Alan Bacher), 1944-

Identifier/Call Number: D-522

Physical Description:
5.4 linear feet

Date (inclusive): circa 1960-2010

Abstract:
Alan B. Williamson, Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, is an author of poetry, short stories, and
books on poetry. His works include:
Westernness: a Meditation
(2006),
Almost a Girl: Male Writers and Female Identification
(2001),
Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry
(1994),
Presence: Poems
(1983), and
Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell
(1974), among others. The Alan Bacher Williamson Papers contain his poems, plays, short stories, and writing notebooks, as
well as literary correspondence, and manuscripts by Frank Bidart and Richard Wertime.

Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.

Language of Material:
Collection materials in
English.

Biography

Alan Bacher Williamson was born on January 24, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois to George and Jehanne (Bacher) Williamson. He earned
a B.A. from Haverford College (1964), and an M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) from Harvard University.

Williamson worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia (1969-1975), Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University
(1977-1980), and Lecturer at Brandeis University (1980-1982) before joining the University of California, Davis faculty as
Assistant Professor in 1982. Professor Williamson has served as Professor of English at UC Davis since 1983.

His works include:
Westernness: a Meditation
(2006),
The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems
(2004),
Almost a Girl: Male Writers and Female Identification
(2001),
Res Publica
(1998),
Love and the Soul
(1995),
Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry
(1994),
The Muse of Distance: Poems
(1988),
Introspection and Contemporary Poetry
(1984),
Presence: Poems
(1983), and
Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell
(1974).

[Identification of item], Alan Bacher Williamson Papers, D-522, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University
of California, Davis.

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